07 March History
- 322 BC - The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies.
- 161 - On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor.
- 1774 - The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
- 1799 - In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
- 1809 - Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard — the first person to make the an aerial voyage in the New World — died on March 7, 1809, at the age of 56.
- 1838 - Soprano Jenny Lind ("the Swedish Nightingale") makes her debut in Weber's opera Der Freischultz.
- 1847 - U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
- 1849 - The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.
- 1862 - Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
- 1904 - The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok.
- 1906 - Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
- 1912 - French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
- 1918 - Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany.
- 1925 - The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia.
- 1927 - A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
- 1933 - The board game Monopoly is invented.
- 1933 - The film King Kong premieres in New York City.
- 1935 - Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
- 1936 - Hitler sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact.
- 1942 - Japanese troops land on New Guinea.
- 1951 - U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
- 1968 - The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
- 1971 - A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.
- 1979 - Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.
07 March Birthdays
- 1707 - Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter, leader of the movement known as "de Stijl."
- 1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer ("Bolero").
- 1887 - Helen Parkhurst, educator, developed a technique later known as the Dalton Plan.
- 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS leader and architect of the "Final Solution."
- 1907 - Rolf Jacobsen, Norwegian poet.
- 1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress.